Winter 2015
Tuesday & Thursday
12:00-2:50; BI-204
LECTURE AND LABORATORY SCHEDULE, ACTIVITIES, AND DOWNLOADS
Texts/Reading:
Gilbert, Scott F.
2014. Developmental Biology, Tenth
Edition. Sinauer Associates Incorporated, Philadephia, PA. ISBN-10: 0878939784.
(“G”) (Eight and Ninth Editions also
acceptable. New and used versions are available on line at prices significantly
less than those of the CSUSB Student Store.)
Wright, Shirley J. 2005. A Photographic Atlas of Developmental
Biology. Morton Publishing Company,
Englewood, CO. (“W”)
Week 1
1/13: Class Logistics; Introduction; Course Scope
1/15: Phylogenetic Perspective and the Evolution of Development – “Evo-Devo” (G - Chapters 1)
Week 2
1/20: Overview of Plant Development
(At:
www.devbio.com)
1/122: Protostome Development – Insects as the Example (G – Chapter 6)
Week 3
1/27: Basic Deuterostome
Development – Echinodermata (G – pp. 217-234)
1/29: Lab Exercise: Sea Urchin Embryology (See lab exercises.)
Week 4
2/3: Midterm Examination 1; 150 points
2/5: Introduction to Chordate Embryology – “Amphioxus” (G – pp. 237-238) [and] Lab Quiz 1; 20 points
Week 5
2/10: Tetrapod Embryology – Amphibians (G - pp. 217-234; Fig. 10-3; 375-378; 415-418)
2/12: Lab Exercise: Frog Embryology - I (See lab exercises.)
Week 6
2/17: Lab Exercise: Frog Embryology - II (See lab exercises.)
2/19: Basal Amniote Embryology – Reptiles and Birds (G – pp. 285-298; also 333-337; 375-382; 415-418 (emphasis on avian parts)
Week 7
2/24: Lab Quiz 2; 30 points [and] Lab Exercise: Basal Amniote
Embryology (Reptiles/Birds) I (See lab exercises.)
2/26: Midterm Examination 2; 200 points
Week8
3/3: Lab Exercise: Basal Amniote
Embryology (Reptiles/Birds) II (See lab exercises.)
3/5: Mammalian Embryology (G – pp. 298-311; also 375-382; 415-418 (emphasis on mammalian parts)
Week 9
3/10: Lab Exercise: Mammalian Embryology (See lab exercises.)
3/12: Later Embryology of Vertebrates – mesodermal derivatives (G – Chapters 12-13)
Week 10
3/17: Lab Final Quiz; 50 points; Later Embryology of Vertebrates – development of the skull
3/19: Evo-Devo revisited – the example of the vertebrate limb (G – Chapter 14)
3/24: Tuesday. Final Examination; 12:00; 250 points.
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